Stories

Edward Johnson, an 88-year-old Navy veteran, volunteers three times a week at UnityPoint Health – Allen Hospital in Waterloo. Over the years, Johnson has befriended Hospital President and CEO Pam Delagardelle. In the past, Johnson previously declined invitations to attend Honor Flights to Washington, DC for military veterans, as he has never wanted to take…read more

UnityPoint Health-Allen Hospital in Waterloo recently welcomed its newest four-legged team member: Krush, a trained K-9 who will provide safety and comfort to patients, visitors, volunteers, students and staff. One of Allen Hospital’s sister hospitals, Trinity Regional Medical Center in Fort Dodge, has already acquired a security K-9, which inspired Allen staff to invest in…read more

Established to assist organizations in the Cedar Valley to improve the health and wellbeing of their citizens, the Otto Schoitz Foundation was named after Waterloo philanthropist and industrialist Otto Schoitz, who donated $500,000 in honor of his late wife, Charlotte, as part of a community wide-effort to raise money to build a new hospital. That…read more

Childhood vaccination rates are less than desirable in Black Hawk County and in the state of Iowa as a whole. In Waterloo, Covenant Clinic pediatrician Dr. Daniel Wright identified the need and found a solution to increase vaccination rates in the area, and more importantly, wants to prevent cancer from occurring. Dr. Wright organized a…read more